[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/16/16 10:38 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice to ship a quick and dirty simple editor with VMS, and it
>> likely would be an afternoon's work to write something for novice users that
>> would be a lot better than Notepad.
>
>Pico.  VIM. (I think that's already available) MicroEmacs.

Pico would be a great start, but you need to be able to edit something other
than Stream_LF files.

>Guess it depends  on what you like in an editor.  I've used
>these three and they are fine for simple editing tasks. I
>think MicroEmacs had a VMS version, but that would have been
>ages ago.

They did, and I still have several users using uEmacs.  It's excellent.
--scott
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